The Book Doctor picks out ideal stories that can be read aloud in one sitting – perfect for guests that want to join in on bedtime reading when children don’t want a change of reader in the middle of their regular book!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the last book in the Harry Potter sequence that feels good to read to most younger children, but what to fill the gap with while they wait to be old enough to read the last four books? The Book Doctor has magical ideas from Diana Wynne Jones to Eva Ibbotson

Unlike his cousins St Patrick and St Andrew, poor old St George is often ignored on his day of days - which happens to be 23 April 2016. A primary school teacher wants to share stories of a brave man defeating a terrible foe with her class – without focussing on the nationalistic connotations

The Book Doctor investigates why books starring unsuccesful outsiders are so popular now, and since forever, from Greg Heffley to Tom Gates to Stanley Yelnats – all the way back to The Bible and Arthurian legend

From Ursula K le Guin’s Earthsea sequence to Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom trilogy, the Book Doctor recommends epic fantasy books to tweens and young teens who want something like Game of Thrones but without the sex and violence

As Snowzilla hits the US, the Book Doctor picks out children’s and teen books that celebrate the magical power of ice and snow to transform landscape and lives, from Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday to Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising